>If I'm not mistaken, the first Scudder novel was either
"The Sins of the>Fathers" or "In the Midst of Death", both 1976.
Evidently, there was some>kinda snafu where the second book was published first.
Any Blockheads out>there have the full story?>
According to Block, the order in which they were written
is

The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
Time to murder and create (1977--but published third)
In the midst of death (1976--but published second)